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Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.

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variable embodiment
Language; Linguistics

The idea that different organisms have different kinds of experiences due to the nature of their embodiment.

Vehicle
Language; Linguistics

The entity in conceptual metonymy which serves to provide access to or to highlight a second entity known as a target. A vehicle is typically encoded linguistically. For instance, ...

verb argument constructions
Language; Linguistics

The set of constructions associated with verbal argument structure studied by Adele Goldberg in developing her theory of construction grammar (2). These include the caused ...

principle of maximized motivation
Language; Linguistics

The principle in construction grammar (2) which accounts for the motivation exhibited by constructions. This principle states that if one construction is syntactically similar to ...

principled polysemy
Language; Linguistics

A model of lexical representation developed within cognitive lexical semantics. Principled polysemy was developed by Vyvyan Evans and Andrea Tyler in response to perceived ...

processing time
Language; Linguistics

A term coined by Ronald Langacker to refer to the cognitive representation of time, where time is a medium of conceptualization. In this sense processing time is ‘real time’, in ...

profile
Language; Linguistics

The entity or relation designated by a word. The profile functions by highlighting a substructure within a larger unit known as the base. Take the example hypotenuse . This word ...

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